Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Ensure everyone has a voice (being heard creates buy-in) • Commit, especially when you utterly disagree • Confront the prima donna • Sharpen the team goal • Stop playing office politics and get behind decisions.

done. Even a household or neighborhood has a culture. If you want better communication between two or more people, then creating a regular cadence of specialized touchpoints—meetings and tools—is one way to improve it. In our marriage, we schedule monthly “money and planning” meetings in which we use AIM to guide us. Working agreements are often us

Nevertheless, these relationships are core to your job. They determine whether you can fulfill your three responsibilities as a manager: 1) to create a culture of guidance (praise and criticism) that will keep everyone moving in the right direction; 2) to understand what motivates each person on your team well enough to avoid burnout or boredom and

Here are some questions we can begin with, every time we set out to do our work together. And yes, they’re worth asking out loud, worth answering in writing, and worth committing to the answers: What’s the specific change this team is going to make? What’s my personal role in making that change happen? What do I need to learn to support or lead thi